the graph that we've we've seen here is there any history of accidents at all with this type of aircraft as far as you know as far as i know as far as we can all remember the. four plane has never had any fatal incidents the last incident was about two years ago it was also a hard landing but. nothing nothing really serious happened back then so it is one of the new generation civil planes in russia and it never had any major incident so we'll have to wait to see whether those fatal reports unconfirmed reports will be proved or not proved and whether this would become the first fatal incident involving this kind of plane of course we hope that isn't the case but the picture is so dramatic it looks inconceivable that people haven't been killed in this well let's all hope that the everyone will stay alive but we know that about twelve survivors already unconfirmed by of officials yet but we are waiting for something from a ship coming every minute basically. ok as you can see a passenger plane just to confirm has crash landed on one of moscow's main highways

unconfirmed reports say that passengers and four crew members were on board we're waiting for more details of this as we get it here on earth. and we understand in fact just coming to us ham in the news and we have. some sound from a witness an eyewitness who may in fact see seeing what happened let's turn this into that. in fact we have someone naive now from near the may have seen what i'm hearing you if you could yes you can hear us now can you tell us what did you see. i'm not in the. highway. traffic bothers a lot of. policemen. right.

crushed and it's like. crossing the t's. but it went either surrender right and. sadness at the site. from the nervous. nothing special because the. special workings of the well i'm not sending just in front of the plane. it should be. the head of the. front part of the. lives just on the on. highway i crossed goes on and three. cops. are lying. across the. highway and there are

a lot of firemen just collecting the rubbish. and did you see the plane coming crash landing yourself did you see that what describe what you. ok we'll leave it there we leave it there for now thank you for that. report. we're going to come back to the student now with lex we've just heard an eyewitness from the scene actually saying very dramatic situation there much emergency services ambulance police you'd expect a big kind of situation and wouldn't you know what kind of i mean how would the emergency services be preparing for something like this well despite that the new year holidays are just basically a day away from us i mean it never concerns the emergency services they are already all the time to perform the job and obviously the airport itself has lots of

emergency services prepared for any kind of accidents or incidents like that obviously that there are so many people on the side but we are not getting any official reports just as of yet because most of the news agencies and t.v. cameras and t.v. crews are being stuck in a huge traffic jam because of the highway is being blocked by the debris of the blinds so obviously our crew is on their way there so we are waiting for what they can bring us a little later on but as we know for now there have been reports of twelve survivors in this incident and also an unconfirmed report of one person dead and we just have to wait and see whether this all these reports will be confirmed or not and we understand that there are several people who are critical in hospital as well as you'd expect an incident like this i mean even the emergency services would have some kind of contingency plans in place for this kind of thing wouldn't they yeah well of course i mean there have to be ready to have to be prepared for anything i mean the new year time and more in moscow and then in russia is also

a time of many different traumatic incidents an accident. services are working around the clock despite their whole lives and this is this is just a case i mean we understand that the fire crews are there that the emergency ministry workers are there the police are there so. it just is a matter of minutes i guess before we'll get the full picture of what exactly happened but as we know so far it's been confirmed by the transport department of the interior ministry that the plane from the czech republic the red wings company landed on the runway of the airport then rolled onto the highway and broke into several pieces we just had basically the same thing confirmed by our eyewitness who made us a phone call and just remind the history of accidents with this type of aircraft from what you understand from what i understand this is one of the new generation civil planes in russia that will have two or four it's been in operation for several years now and they haven't been any fatal accidents involving this kind of aircraft only one basically accident happened with it just

a couple of years ago it was another hard landing but no casualties there were very few injured so if the reports of a dead person of a casualty in this case proved to be correct then this would be the first fatal incident involving the tuple of two or four aircraft let's hope this won't happen. ok we'll leave it there for now a passenger plane has crashed learned on the one of moscow's main highways going to stand there are fatalities there and we'll bring you more on this as and when we get it here at r.t. . other news now the international peace envoy for syria says there are only two directions for the conflict a political process all hell and russia's foreign minister at a meeting with me in moscow said the syrian opposition is refusal to talk with the government only paves the way for further bloodshed not a single person off has been following the talks. the biggest stumbling block in

the syrian conflict right now is that the opposition is rejecting any compromise saying strictly that president assad has to go while assad himself says he's not going anywhere he's protecting his country and moscow says nobody's able to persuade him to change his mind and neither side is willing to put its weapons down if. you know the only alternative is. really hands on a political process then we have all of us to work says listen in for a political process mr brahimi added that this should be a syrian allowed political process which should be based on the agreements reached by world powers in geneva and they include forming a transitional government which could include all sides of the conflict but the opposition is not only unwilling to negotiate with the soon afterwards is now rejecting direct talks with moscow which has been trying to be a mediator and we've heard from the leader of the recently established opposition

coalition who demanded moscow to apologize for what he said was support for president assad. i understand that mr hottie because probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interests to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to all opposition forces but we start from the premises that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives without preconditions on notice meanwhile the violence is continuing to ask syria there have been more terrorist attacks the rebels have been also attacking states military air strips of while government troops have been responding with more shelling. a reminder of our breaking news here on r.t.e.

a passenger plane has crashed landed on one of moscow's main highways unconfirmed reports say that eight passengers and four crew members were on board we understand that three people been taken to hospital we're not sure what the extent of their injuries are and the airport has been closed with planes rerouted from that route. and we have some background actually on the plane and the company operating it the airliner is a russian built to pull of two to four designed at the end of the nine hundred eighty s. and throughout its operational history the plane has never been in an incident involving fatalities we can see here a photograph of him tweeted through from one of our viewers of the dramatic accident there on the highway we understand there's only one crash landing before today that was back in march twenty ten and the plane that crash landed today is

operated by russian charter company called red wings you can actually see on the plane big sign read it was owned by russian billionaire xander lever deaf he also owns some russian and british media outlets. well we've got our correspondents are next ski here in the studio with us of c. that details very sketchy at this point but what can you tell us well we all know so far that according to the department of transportation of interior ministry that the plane of the red wings company which you just mentioned landed at the airport there for some reason it rolled off the runway into the highway which is one of the biggest highways in the south of moscow the road which actually leads to key to the capital of ukraine it is a quite big highway and then it broke into several pieces according to eyewitness reports also they say that it went on fire and that also they say that twelve

people twelve survivors were rescued from the burning debris of the plane also we know also unconfirmed reports over of one casualty if that proves to be correct then this will be the first case of this particular plane to have two or four. involving this particular plane fatal incident so let's hope this will not happen but we're also know that the airport has been closed because the runway is not another operational state obviously the degree of the plane is blocking the runway all the planes which were meant to land at the airport are now being rerouted to the sheremeta airport on the other side of moscow also we know that the road itself the highway with the degree of the plane are scattered is blocked by traffic blocked by the obviously by the emergency ministry workers. and in fact we had we had a night witness report of that in fact i spoke to us from the scene from or from a phone he gave a very dramatic picture of what he could see i mean presumably they would be

contingency plans for police emergency services for that kind of thing this kind of event well definitely they have to be ready for all of that and we just had it confirmed by the merging. ministry work is story by the interior ministry that two people were killed in this accident so definitely this has become the first time that a total of two or four is involved in a fatal incident and obviously we're waiting to hear from the authorities whether there will be any more casualties but they have just confirmed this is breaking news that two people officially reported dead following this accident with a tuple of two or four plane and of course we look at this kind of dramatic photo and. it looks even magine there could be several casualties we hope not obviously but it does look at. it looks fatal but we we believe according to unconfirmed reports that there were only twelve people on board this aircraft we

know that three of the survivors of the reported of the claims twelve survivors are in a very serious serious condition have been taken to hospitals but. all of these reports are and confirmed the only confirmed report we've seen so far is that two people were killed in this accident ok for now we'll leave it there but we can now talk to maria fanaa who's the railway station where express trains head for or. maria if you can hear us so what's going on where you are now. yeah i can hear you i'm now on my way he said the right to the scene of the plane crash he says been record set to keep i way has been cordoned off the aircraft has crashed into. the subway in the wrong i have a lot of people in the underground maybe to connect it to the catastrophe that happened earlier today but it's actually rush hour in the russian capital

a new year pause all around well it's quite normal to see crowded subway and cloudy roads and. c.t. actually in general. this time of the day and this time of the year as you said i'm right now at one of the city's railway stations where. the express train departing to the local airport that very airport where the plane had expected to land and actually failed to do and i've spoken to the stop here and trains actually go according to normal chad you every hour there are people here queuing and i have been able to speak to them and they know what happened but actually i don't know exactly what happened and. i have to say that they are quite calm very most of them who are going to pull

off for new year holiday isn't quite unpleasant to hear a plane crash just ahead of your own edge only of course but but i have to say the people here are quite calm and we are waiting for the next train to go to the airport but the latest we've been hearing and my colleague has just confirmed that the interior ministry is now saying that two people at least have been. have been killed in this catastrophe and of course it's not. what we have so far but unfortunately. bigger may change because that was there was a fight catastrophe actually. ok i'm afraid i shan't thank you for that for now. we can tell you a little bit of the background on this plane and the company operating it the airline is a russian built a tuple of c u two hundred four designed at the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. and throughout its operational history the plane is never been in an accident involving

fatalities but there was one crash landing before today understand that was back in march twenty ten the plane that crashed and it is today is operated by russian charter company red wings which is owned by russian billionaire and examine the evidence of course he also owns some russian and british media outlets now i understand that we may be able to speak to another eyewitness who may have seen what happened thank you for joining us can you can you tell us what you saw. i had to trust myself for an hour and the just reported to play just three parts is pretty meters away from h. . g.'s highway and just just a minute ago. the traffic just one lane and now the situation in your district. i haven't seen

a big. number. shortage. of big t.v. yet. and. now that maintaining our web starfire do. just because all the rubbish all the shambo probably dance card. ok and we can see some dramatic pictures here first pictures of this plane crash this is a russian t.v. channel t.v. news channel you can see these live pictures showing what appears to be the plane almost broken into there and we can see what must be emergency police and ambulance

is in the background where film this quite possibly on their on their mobile phones yes indeed this was filmed this is live pictures are going out and actually live there as we saw there they are still in fact someone is filming us as we speak . i think the three pieces in this election are still with us here in the in the studio well what do you make of that i make that the plane is broke into three pieces you can see the tail of the plane you can see the middle part and obviously there is no front part of the plane it's missing according as you can see from the picture you can see there on the left side there's no front part of the plane the nose of the plane so it's probably broke into three pieces just like we heard from the eyewitnesses and according to the twitter reports we also managed to see that the plane broke into three pieces after rolling off the runway and crashing into

the highway indeed it's very difficult to tell and oversee the details are sketchy it looks like it's just hitting the edge of the of the highway there maybe just some skidded off the airport or of the of the air landing strip or something probably because there is a steep steep road to the highway a little hill and that's that's where as i see it from here that's where the plane crashed obviously that's where it broke. it turns a little bit more of the background that's that you know this interesting fact about this particular plane is that it had never had any fatal incidents before. it was designed in the late eighty's though in operation for another for about ten years already many russian and international companies use the tool of tool for applying this particular company the red wings is a charter company owned by the russian billionaire alexander liberty who also always several british newspapers. this is the first time as i've said that this

plane had a fatal incident the other incident it was involved in was another crash landing just two years ago but nobody was killed and there were just very very few injuries there so conservative definitely this is a dark page for this to believe complete and the pull of two or four planes in particular but i've flown the tupolev to all four planes several times and in particular i've even flown the red wings company and. never seen or have never thought that you know this plane could crash i mean it's a really good plane it's very well equipped very very well enhanced compared to the tupolev planes of the soviet era which are now completely written off and not used anymore by the russian companies so we'll have to wait and see whether there will be more casualties but we haven't confirmed already by the theory ministry that two people have been reported killed in this accident and indeed we understand least three injured taken to hospital we can see in this photograph here the emergency services in the background even in this whole of the period they would be prepared for this kind of event wouldn't they yes certainly they have to be really twenty

four seven things happen and obviously the new year time is it is a celebration time for everyone but not for the emergency services in fact the new year time is always always comes with different accidents household accidents fireworks accidents so the emergency services are always ready and i think this is just the case but if we could just see from this picture which we were just showing there which we were just seeing there basically confirms my theory that the front part of the plane also broke off from the middle part of the play so in fact we can see it again here the pictures that it broke into three pieces most likely something which has been confirmed by many eyewitnesses i witnessed in which the reports from the site and have basically confirmed by the phone callers who gave us a call and told them told us what they saw on the site. and i believe we can now speak to an aviation expert yuri kharaj live here in r.t.

if you can hear us what could you tell us about this plane and how reliable is it normally. there was only one. accident. and it happened not because. there. and you. can hear me yes i can do concerning. sort of because there were some who was actually on the air anyway so ok i will continue to pollute to zero four is a fairly reliable acra after seventy three pieces have been for the use so far and fifty two are still in service and so far there were only one how a lot of accidents which happened two years ago in two thousand and ten and it was not because of some hardware malfunction if i can say so because it was not because

of the aircraft but it was pilot error so they were using their wrong g.p.s. well they were using the ethic we must not certified for the precision landing so they just crashed one mile before the runways. as i said it was pilot error as about the. accident. there a little information about this at landing but for some reason could not stay on the runway so was because they're all it was slippery wasn't because there was a small function or was because they landed too far beyond the dodge down zone i don't know yet we still have to get more information and we understand from the information we do have that there were eight passengers and four crew members on board is it unusual to have so few people on board one of these extremely unusual because to believe two zero four could carry more than two hundred passengers

so what these passengers were doing. in the aircraft so what kind of lesson just run they were they likely a peace. deal when deputies i don't know was it some sort of a charter flight or you're right it's it's it's it's call. it's quite unusual that there are only eight passengers on board such a graph as to zero four and in your experience we don't know at this stage but is it more likely to be a pilot error or a technical error from what you can see in on the photographs and from what you understand of the history of this aircraft well i can tell you. on the rural statistics more than fifty percent of the aviation accidents accidents happen because of the human factor so this is pilot error so in the rationale for

the number of miles up to eighty seven percent. you know well i'm a pilot myself of course. i would not like to cast any shadow on my colleagues but i cannot exclude the possibility that human error as you say you are part of yourself and what sort of things would you be doing what kind of procedures would you be doing on this kind of landing well apparently. it was an instrumental landing it was not it was not it was for me the incremental approach not the real approach so i'm not sure about weather conditions in the vicinity of the airport i understand apparently apparently. you know i. grew noticed they were lending too far. they should have executed a go around procedure ok well we'll leave it there for now we'll wait for more

details as you say thank you for joining us and so my pleasure but we cannot go to our chief master national who concern us a little bit more hopefully you know what can you tell us. i'm sorry for those first of all carrie i'm right now on board the express train going. west of moscow that very airport where the plane had expected to land but eventually failed and crashed into behave highway and the highway is now cordoned off and this is why. more people right now on the express train taking the train to the airport because people are actually. not all of them but most of them about what happened although they don't know exactly what happened this is why on board the train we're hearing people calling their relatives and friends and trying to reach new cover for. information to know more about what is going on and what is going to happen with this wife because they. actually obviously are for new year

holiday. trials and clearly to hear the plane crash just ahead of your journey and trying to understand what's going to happen. quite calm and. who i have been able to speak to say that talk a little the journey on this train will take just thirty five minutes we're going to see when we arrive. ok. but we have to leave it there for a moment to me i'm sure we'll come back to you with more on this and we'll have more on the story as we get it at r.t. . wealthy british style. is no time to write for.

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